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My debut novel, Child of Fire, was named to Publishers Weekly's Best 100 Books of 2009, and the two that followed received starred reviews. My epic fantasy trilogy The Great Way was crowdfunded and, at the time, was the ninth-most funded Fiction Kickstarter ever.

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It’s after 4 am and my cough won’t let me sleep

I’ve been sleeping on the couch for two nights because I don’t want to keep my wife awake, but tonight I can’t even fall asleep on my own.

What’s more, I find that the extended edition DVDs of Lord of the Rings don’t include the theatrical version. I have to pay extra for both? I’d have been happy to forgo a NZ travelogue and a docu on the movies’ sound design for the theatrical versions, you jerks.

Screw this. I’m just going to work on my new book and to hell with going to sleep. I can pull an all-nighter like I used to do in college, right? Right?

Here’s a sleep-deprived poll about the wip: Secret lake city of the unexpectedly intelligent alligator creatures, yes or no?

“City” suggests an economic center of some size with surrounding agriculture, roads, villages, etc. I’m having a hard time envisioning that as a well-kept secret, unless all that evidence of activity is not readily detectable to the people who didn’t realize the alligators were intelligent.

If the alligator folks were a persecuted minority they might have a secret village; perhaps embedded in a larger, ruined city.